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[-] T156@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

You joke, but there are already protheses which are proprietary, and have shut down. Artificial eyes is a famous example, where the company making one shut down the product line, and blinded people who'd had it installed, due to it just shutting off.

[-] DivineDev@piefed.social 18 points 11 months ago

In a good world this type of shit would be illegal. We'll need a stop killing games petition but for organs soon

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

I think that's alcoholic anonymous

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 15 points 11 months ago

In any sane society, there would be heads on the chopping block for this, figuratively speaking.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

hands on the chopping block, and then replaced with proprietary prosthetics

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

Why would the company shutting down brick the device? Is it calling back home for processing or something.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Cyberpunk really sucks when it's all corpo and no chop shops.

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